movimentadovsmovimentoWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: movimentado is a adjective, movimento is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“movimentado” is an adjective and “movimento” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#16,119
“movimentado” frequency rank
#607
“movimento” frequency rank
16726
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature movimentado movimento
Definition agitado, animado ato ou efeito de mover(-se)

Letter map: movimentado vs movimento

Shared letters muted; letters that set movimentado and movimento apart highlighted. Shared run: 9. movimentado runs 11 letters (CVCVCVCCVCV) against movimento's 9 (CVCVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
movimentado
9 ch
movimento

Role in the sentence - movimentado and movimento

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: movimentado is anadjective and movimentoanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16726, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

movimentado is recorded at frequency rank #16,119, classified as anadj. movimento is at rank #607, tagged as anoun, pronounced /mu.vi.ˈmẽ.tu/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 16726, this pair ranks #54,735 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of movimentado vs movimento

Shared letters: eimnotv. Private to "movimentado": ad. Private to "movimento": -.

"movimentado" · 11 letters · shape CVCVCVCCVCV  ·  "movimento" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • movimentado ← mmovimentado · moivmentado · moviemntado · movimenatdo · movimenntado · movimentaddo · movimentaod · movimentdao
  • movimento ← mmovimento · moivmento · moviemnto · movimennto · movimenot · movimentto · movimetno · movimmento

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "movimentado" for "movimento" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "movimentado" is an adjective and "movimento" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "movimentado" vs "movimento" - which ranks higher?
"movimento" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #607 in our Portuguese list, against #16,119 for "movimentado". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "movimentado" and "movimento".

  • Full dictionary entry for "movimentado" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "movimento" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #54,735 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "movimentado" and "movimento" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "movimentado vs movimentar". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #54,735 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list